TECH DORM

We previously wrote about various websites that lets anyone one learn any new subject anytime. Some of them like CodeAcademy are very interactive, with lots of active people who can clear your doubts in very less time. But you can use IRC to get answers. Internet Relay Chat or commonly known as IRC is still very popular among developers and others. There are dedicated servers like FreeNode for open source specific software. If you are struck with a problem and can’t find solution eve after Goggling or going through Reference Guide you might want to try looking up on IRC’s.Here are some advantages of using IRC’s. You get answers in real time.There might be many users at any channel at any given time. So you get best answer from experts. There are other people who might be learning the same language. You get tips from them too. You don’t have to register yourself (in most cases) to participate in a channel. So this different from forum very registering is necessary. There are channels ...

As a student we are sometimes in a position that we are not able to clearly grasp topic , or missed out some of the courses due to unavoidable circumstances, or learning an entirely new topic, or professor not being able to teach properly or whatever the reason may be. Internet is full of resources for those who need it.A quick search on the topic will return tons of information. Here is list of sites that present university level courses in video and interactive format. There is no best list as new ones come up regularly, or this list might be old when you read it. Khan Academy —The website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,000 video lectures stored on YouTube on various subjects ranging from maths ,science,arts, economics etc.. Code Academy ---It is one of the best place to start to learning to code. It very interactive place, and you can track your progress easily. Udacity ---It is newcomer in this field with courses being bit more complex than the others. But since i...

Tired of reading e-books? Yes you can get audiobooks of major novels but not for all. Here is a nice little option you get in Adobe Reader X to read books out loud. First open your book in Adobe Reader X. Then go to View===>Read Out Loud===>Activate Read Out Loud. Again go to above location to use the feature. You can also following short cut keys To activate Shift+Ctrl+Y To read till end of the document Shift+Ctrl+B It uses Microsoft Anna as narrator. So to adjust setting like volume, speed you need to go to Control Panel==>Ease of Use==>Speech Recognition and the change settings according to your need.